diff --git a/jpos/src/main/java/org/jpos/util/DailyLogListener.java b/jpos/src/main/java/org/jpos/util/DailyLogListener.java
index 415f9cb315..3c8fd70fc1 100644
--- a/jpos/src/main/java/org/jpos/util/DailyLogListener.java
+++ b/jpos/src/main/java/org/jpos/util/DailyLogListener.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 
 import org.jpos.core.Configuration;
 import org.jpos.core.ConfigurationException;
+import org.jpos.core.annotation.Config;
 
 import java.io.*;
 import java.nio.file.Files;
@@ -56,6 +57,10 @@ public class DailyLogListener extends RotateLogListener{
     private static final int DEF_BUFFER_SIZE = 128*1024;//128 KB
     private static final String[] DEF_COMPRESSED_SUFFIX= {"",".gz",".zip"};
     private static final Map<String,Integer> COMPRESSION_FORMATS = new HashMap<String,Integer>(3);
+    
+    @Config("max-depth-deletion")
+    private int maxDepthDeletion = DEF_MAXDEPTH;
+    
     static {
         COMPRESSION_FORMATS.put("none", NONE);
         COMPRESSION_FORMATS.put("gzip", GZIP);
@@ -93,7 +98,7 @@ public void setConfiguration(Configuration cfg) throws ConfigurationException {
         setCompressionBufferSize(cfg.getInt("compression-buffer-size",
                 DEF_BUFFER_SIZE));
 	    
-	deleteRegex = cfg.get("delete-regex", defaultDeleteRegex());
+	    deleteRegex = cfg.get("delete-regex", defaultDeleteRegex());
 
         setLastDate(fmt.format(new Date()));
 
@@ -178,7 +183,7 @@ public void deleteOldLogs() throws IOException {
 		long currentSystemTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
 
 		try {
-			Files.find(logBasePath, DEF_MAXDEPTH,
+			Files.find(logBasePath, maxDepthDeletion,
 					(path, attributes) ->
 							path.getFileName().toString().matches(deleteRegex)
 							&& attributes.isRegularFile()
diff --git a/jpos/src/test/java/org/jpos/util/DailyLogListenerTest.java b/jpos/src/test/java/org/jpos/util/DailyLogListenerTest.java
index b4ac150d80..53ea1f4654 100644
--- a/jpos/src/test/java/org/jpos/util/DailyLogListenerTest.java
+++ b/jpos/src/test/java/org/jpos/util/DailyLogListenerTest.java
@@ -20,17 +20,24 @@
 
 import static org.apache.commons.lang3.JavaVersion.JAVA_14;
 import static org.apache.commons.lang3.SystemUtils.isJavaVersionAtMost;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.not;
 import static org.jpos.util.LogFileTestUtils.getStringFromCompressedFile;
 import static org.jpos.util.LogFileTestUtils.getStringFromFile;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.*;
+import static org.hamcrest.io.FileMatchers.anExistingFile;
+import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.*;
 
 import java.io.*;
 import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.nio.file.LinkOption;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.nio.file.Paths;
+import java.nio.file.attribute.FileTime;
 import java.text.DateFormat;
 import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
+import java.time.Instant;
+import java.time.temporal.ChronoUnit;
 import java.util.Date;
 import java.util.Properties;
 import java.util.zip.Deflater;
@@ -40,6 +47,7 @@
 import org.jpos.core.ConfigurationException;
 import org.jpos.core.SimpleConfiguration;
 import org.jpos.core.SubConfiguration;
+import org.jpos.q2.QFactory;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Disabled;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
@@ -427,6 +435,43 @@ public void testMaxAgeFeatureWhenThereIsNonLogFiles() throws Exception {
 		listener.destroy();
 	}
 
+    @Test
+    public void testDeleteOldLogsWithCustomMaxDepth() throws ConfigurationException, IOException, IllegalAccessException {
+        Path parent = logRotationTestDirectory.getDirectory().resolve("parent");
+        Files.createDirectory(parent);
+        Path child = Files.createTempFile(parent, "child", ".log");
+        assertThat("file should have been created", child.toFile(), is(anExistingFile()));
+        Files.setLastModifiedTime(child, FileTime.from(Instant.now().minus(1, ChronoUnit.DAYS))); //old enough
+        DailyLogListener listener = new DailyLogListener();
+        SimpleConfiguration cfg = new SimpleConfiguration();
+        cfg.put("prefix", logRotationTestDirectory.getFile("q2").toString());
+        cfg.put("max-depth-deletion", "2");
+        cfg.put("delete-regex", "^child.*\\.log");
+        cfg.put("maxage", "1000");
+        QFactory.autoconfigure(listener, cfg);
+        listener.setConfiguration(cfg);
+        listener.deleteOldLogs();
+        assertThat("file should have been deleted", child.toFile(), is(not(anExistingFile())));
+
+    }
+    @Test
+    public void testDeleteOldLogsWithoutCustomMaxDepth() throws ConfigurationException, IOException, IllegalAccessException {
+        Path parent = logRotationTestDirectory.getDirectory().resolve("parent");
+        Files.createDirectory(parent);
+        Path child = Files.createTempFile(parent, "child", ".log");
+        assertThat("file should have been created", child.toFile(), is(anExistingFile()));
+        Files.setLastModifiedTime(child, FileTime.from(Instant.now().minus(1, ChronoUnit.DAYS))); //old enough
+        DailyLogListener listener = new DailyLogListener();
+        SimpleConfiguration cfg = new SimpleConfiguration();
+        cfg.put("prefix", logRotationTestDirectory.getFile("q2").toString());
+        cfg.put("delete-regex", "^child.*\\.log");
+        cfg.put("maxage", "1000");
+        QFactory.autoconfigure(listener, cfg);
+        listener.setConfiguration(cfg);
+        listener.deleteOldLogs();
+        assertThat("file should have not been deleted", child.toFile(), is(anExistingFile()));
+
+    }
 	@Test
 	@Disabled("This feature doesn't work in Windows so we reverted the patch c94ff02f2")
 	public void testLogRotateAbortsWhenCreatingNewFileFails() throws Exception {